{"id":12237,"date":"2018-02-13T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2018-02-13T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:47:25","slug":"love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/02\/love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002-681x908.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love you, my two littlest loves.<\/p>\n<p>To my eldest, I love you for your courage, your kindness for your affectionate nature.<\/p>\n<p>I love you even for your stubbornness, your needs that must be met, am grateful for your myriad ways of expressing them.<\/p>\n<p>I love you for your passion for horses, the gentle way you rub your host&#8217;s nose after each session, how you allow your ride to nuzzle you and share his love of you as well.<\/p>\n<p>I love you for your laugh, that rare sound that stops an entire household in mid-action to come running to see what has summoned such joy from an often serious child.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center air-md\">I love you for your need for hugs from me, morning and night, and that sacred time we spend each day strengthening our connection to one another.<\/div>\n<p>I love that you made me a mom.<\/p>\n<p>To my youngest, I love you for your courage, your sense of right and wrong, your tenacity of spirit.<\/p>\n<p>I love how you fight for those you love, never retreating from taking care of your own.<\/p>\n<p>I love how you love little kids, even when I promise you your dream of a younger sibling is really quite impossible.<\/p>\n<p>I love your jokes, but even more I love the joy you receive from telling them.<\/p>\n<p>I love even your millionth question, because it illuminates your radiant mind (which often sends me running to Google).<\/p>\n<p>I love how you look out for your big brother.<\/p>\n<p>I love you, my littlest loves.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentines Day!<\/p>\n<p><em>For more on my family visit my blog at autismmommytherapist.wordpress.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow me on Facebook at Autism Mommy-Therapist<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/02\/love-2\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love you, my two littlest loves. To my eldest, I love you for your courage, your kindness for your affectionate nature. I love you even for your stubbornness, your needs that must be met, am grateful for your myriad ways of expressing them. I love you for your passion for horses, the gentle way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":12238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[293,295,294],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-ocean-county","tag-autism","tag-autism-acceptance","tag-autism-awareness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Xmas-2017-Snow-Dance-002.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}